SCWK 468: Social Welfare Policy

Course Description

This course prepares students to act as policy advocators, apply social work values and ethics to public policy analysis and implementation, to employ critical thinking skills to analyze policy practice, to advance policies that are socially just and to promote policies that facilitate the well-being of social service recipients. Social Welfare policy is viewed within the context of generalist practice and the social worker’s role as a policy advocate and partner at all levels in society. Prerequisites: Admission to the BSW program and completion of SOC WORK 401, or instructor consent.